Locke Talks Monster House

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By Stax

IGN FilmForce recently paid a visit to the Mexico set of Resident Evil: Extinction where we chatted with one of the film's co-stars, young actress Spencer Locke. Locke also appears in this summer's performance capture family film Monster House, and she spoke about that movie during a roundtable interview with the press.

Monster House required the cast to act on a small stage covered with green screens. The actors wore green bodysuits and dots on their faces so that their performances could be digitally captured and animated over later.

"They didn't animate anything except put a character on me &#Array; on my actions," Locke insisted. "It wasn't just a voiceover, it was performance animation, performance capture and we're in what's called a volume and we're wearing wet suits. 70 sensors on our faces. It's very interesting, really interesting. Steve Buscemi, Jon Heder, Catherine O'Hara, just so many wonderful actors I got to work with. We did everything. We acted everything. It wasn't just a voiceover."

Locke called the shooting process "a great experience, because literally, you're imagining everything. Everything you are imagining so it's great training for here [Resident Evil] doing green screen. Really having to get there mentally."

"'O.K., Spencer. You're falling down a mountain so just use your arms and your head.' So, that was kind of weird. (Laughs.) But I got to do lots of kinds of stunts where I run and I jump 20 feet in the air and I grab on to the [monster house's] uvula. All of that I got to do, which was a blast."

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Of her fellow young co-stars Mitchel Musso and Sam Lerner, Locke said, "We were all newcomers back then. It's been two years of post-production, which you can imagine with that new technology. We had a great time together." She added, "We did some reshoots a couple of months ago. It was kind of weird getting back in the wetsuits. Everybody was like, 'Wow, you've grown five inches!' 'Well, it's been two years.'"